U.S.A_ - John Dos Passos [528]
"Put him on my phone, Miss Hil es. I'l talk to him. . . and, by the way, put a social engagement on my engagement pad. . .
January fifteenth at five o'clock. . . reception Miss Myra Bingham, 36 Central Park South."
NEWSREEL LXVIII
WALL STREET STUNNED
This is not Thirty-eight but it's old Ninety-seven
You must put her in Center on time
-519-MARKET SURE TO RECOVER FROM SLUMP
Decline in Contracts
POLICE TURN MACHINE GUNS ON
COLORADO MINE STRIKERS
KILL 5 WOUND 40
sympathizers appeared on the scene just as thousands of office workers were pouring out of the buildings at the lunch hour. As they raised their placard high and started an indefinite march from one side to the other, they were jeered and hooted not only by the office workers but also by workmen on a build-ing under construction NEW METHODS
OF SELLING SEEN
Rescue Crews Try To Upend Il -fated Craft While
Waiting For Pontoons
We looked 'round an' said to his black greasy fireman Jus' shovel in a little more coal And when we cross that White Oak Mountain
You can watch your Ninety-seven rol
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POLICE KILLER FLICKS CIGARETTE AS HE
GOES TREMBLING TO DOOM
PLAY AGENCIES IN RING OF SLAVE
GIRL MARTS
Maker of Love Disbarred as Lawyer
Oh the right wing clothesmakers
And the Socialist fakers
They make by the workers. . .
Double cross
They preach Social-ism
But practice Fasc-ism
To keep capitalism
By the boss
-520-MOSCOW CONGRESS OUSTS OPPOSITION
It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danvil e An' a line on a three mile grade It was on that grade he lost his average
An' you see what a jump he made
MILL THUGS IN MURDER RAID
here is the most dangerous example of how at the decisive moment the bourgeois ideology liquidates class solidarity and turns a friend of the workingclass of yesterday into a most mis-erable propagandist for imperialism today RED PICKETS FINED FOR
PROTEST HERE
We leave our home in the morning
We kiss our children goodby
OFFICIALS STILL HOPE FOR RESCUE
OF MEN
He was goin' downgrade makin' ninety miles an hour
When his whistle broke into a scream
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle An' was scalded to death with the steam
RADICALS FIGHT WITH CHAIRS AT
UNITY MEETING
PATROLMEN PROTECT REDS
U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES CONFIDENCE
REAL VALUES UNHARMED
While we slave for the bosses
Our children scream an' cry
But when we draw our money
Our grocery bil s to pay
PRESIDENT SEES PROSPERITY NEAR
Not a cent to spend for clothing
Not a cent to lay away.
-521STEAMROLLER IN ACTION AGAINST
MILITANTS
MINERS BATTLE SCABS
But we cannot buy for our children
Our wages are too low
Now listen to me you workers
Both you women and men
Let us win for them the victory
I'm sure it ain't no sin
CARILLON PEALS IN SINGING TOWER
the President declared it was impossible to view the in-creased advantages for the many without smiling at those who a short time ago expressed so much fear lest our country might come under the control of a few individuals of great wealth HAPPY CROWDS THRONG CEREMONY
on a tiny island nestling like a green jewel in the lake that mirrors the singing tower, the President today participated in the dedication of a bird sanctuary and its pealing caril on, ful-fil ing the dream of an immigrant boy THE CAMERA EYE (51)
at the head of the val ey in the dark of the hil s on the broken floor of a lurchedover cabin a man halfsits halflies propped up by an old woman two wrinkled girls that might be young chunks of coal flare in the hearth flicker in his face white and sagging as dough blacken the cavedin mouth the taut throat the bel y swel ed enor-mous with the wound he got working on the minetipple the barefoot girl brings him a tincup of water the
-522-woman wipes sweat off his streaming face with a dirty denim sleeve the firelight flares in his eyes stretched big with fever in the women's scared eyes and in the blanched faces of the foreigners